[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-10-12

Fri Oct 12 13:06:21 UTC 2012

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* working on glibc-2.16 + patches for R
* archive cleanup
* general release prep
* fixed the Pandas to stop timing out builds
* upstart:
  * Identified and fixed bridge respawn issue.
  * Wrote more tests.
* python-mode 6.0.12-{1,2} for sid
* gwibber py3 reviews and merges
* monitoring the panda zoo, called is emergency line twice this we to
re-enable the pandas
* remaining MIR's
* fixing build failures
* prepare for r-series opening
* libhybris work
* mountall bugfix upload
* Secure Boot: shim uploaded, signed by MS, and re-uploaded as 
  shim-signed; d-i, grub2 integration tag-teaming w/ cjwatson
* fix update-notifier regression caused by us not having a good way to 
  block bad translations of variable names
* multiarch review of appmenu-gtk
* working on ubiquity's rls-q-tracking bugs and adv-lvm
* Finished armel/main rebuild for ARMv5t.
* Lots of build fixes, buildd babysitting, and general +1 maintenance 
  work; trying to get most of the relevant lists to zero for release.
* Applied Wookey's aarch64 config.guess/config.sub patches.
* Panting for breath down the home stretch of UEFI secure boot support:
 * Merged a few tweaks from Fedora.
 * Implemented kernel handling policy.
 * Created a separate signed image for use on removable media.
 * Arranged for grub-install to install signed images if appropriate.
 * Fixed up grub-efi-amd64-signed to do the installation.
 * Attempted to make the installer install the necessary packages when 
   the SecureBoot variable is set.
* Finishing up the webops sprint in BlueFin.
  * We now have charms for daisy, the retracers, and errors. Basic
    documentation exists at:
    https://wiki.canonical.com/ErrorTracker/Deployment
    Oddly, adding support for configuration options (the EC2 keys for 
    daisy and daisy-retracer) is confusing the AMQP relationship, which 
    is calling config-changed rather than relation-changed. Looking into
    it.
  * We now backend to S3 for the core file storage. This should make the
    infrastructure far more scalable.
* Firefighting the retracers again. This time it what first appeared to 
  be a unicode issue deep inside apport's report writing code, but looks
  to be more like some bogus data coming from the slightly older version
  of gdb we're running on the retracers. Still investigating.
  * Tom would like me to come up with a better way of handling 
    programming errors in the retracer path. Right now we bring the 
    retracers down hard whenever apport-retrace or the wrapping code
    raises an exception. One alternative is to throw the crashes which
    trigger an exception on a separate rabbit queue to be evaluated by
    me without having to involve webops too much.
* Got a change to daisy deployed that starts collecting by-problem type
  counts of instances every day. Modified errors to then show us "all
  collected" and "by 12.04 standards" (in the case of 12.10) lines. This
  latter line is all the problem types minus the RecoverableError type,
  which didn't exist in 12.04.
  * Refactored the legend code to cope with the "all collected" and "by
    XX.XX standards" subtypes.
* Taught errors to change the URL to match the 'most common problems'
  table selection. This will teach people the URL parameters they can
  load the website with:
  http://errors.ubuntu.com/?package=software-center
  It will also make the Awesome Bar in Firefox more Awesome, according
  to Seb.
* Meeting with legal counsel to work through our crashes privacy policy.
* Started to look into generating a crash signature for kernel oops
  reports at
  Andy's request.
* worked around an issue with libreoffice on arm
* uploaded nvidia-tegra drivers
* added a new arch to flash-kernel
* various image tests etc
* Attended LTSP by the sea from Thursday to Sunday
* LXC Upstream work, reviewing patches, maintaining staging branch.  
  Starting cherry-pick of fixes for 0.8 upstream release.
* Fixed some regression introduced in ifupdown when we dropped the 
  sysvinit script
* Updated ifenslave-2.6 to work with biosdevname
* Updated isc-dhcp-server to fix apparmor profile for 
  isc-dhcp-server-ldap
* Went through the networking related bugs, did some cleanup.
* Did a firmware upgrade on my laptop (took a while to figure out how 
  exactly to do it), now have a new UEFI with SecureBoot support.
* Spent some more time on casper, got the bug count down to something 
  reasonable and uploaded a bunch of bugfixes.
* Uploaded a new ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu with updated screenshots, the
  ubuntu-gnome slideshow and refreshed translations.
* Refreshed the edubuntu-live installer steps translations.
* Did some work on post-install preseed generation, will try to get a 
  prototype out today.
* debugged tested and fixed ubuntu-release-upgrader
* SRU preparation and work for update-manager
* bug testing / research into usb-creator
* bug testing / research into update-manager

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

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== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ==

bug 740390 "libdbus-1-3 upgrade does not respawn init, resulting in 
           unclean shutdown"
bug 1062202 "[SRU] libnih upgrade does not respawn init, resulting in 
            unclean shutdown"
bug 1060249 "frontend crashed with signal 5 in free_pending_nulls()"
bug 794112 "Kerberos + LDAP + NFSv4 - Unable to recover unattended 
           client"
bug 1036834 "[FFe] gdb should be marked "Multi-arch: allowed""
bug 1061149 "boot occasionally hangs while "Checking battery state...""
bug 711162 "ubuntuone-login crashed with ValueError in call_async():
           Unable to guess signature from an empty dict"
bug 1060489 "FTBFS due to build-dep conflicts"
bug 915626 "usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV"
bug 1063980 "Regression in animation speed"
bug 1063061 "please backport support for EFI vars > 1KB"
bug 1060296 "'df /' reports Filesystem '-'"
bug 1003100 "package-data-downloader: KeyError: 'paquetes'"
bug 932860 "Broken (or missing) multiarch support"
bug 1056300 "If a GTK application quits the main loop and restarts it
            again, accessibility is lost."
bug 632382 "Console font does not get set"
bug 1062448 "soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in     
            lucene::index::IndexFileNames::fileNameFromGeneration()"
bug 1061639 "Upstartification of /etc/init.d/networking has lost 
            deconfiguring-networking event causing bad side-effects"
bug 948538 "eth* device names hardcoded in debian/pre-up script"
bug 1057358 "dhcpd in isc-dhcp-server-ldap cannot 
            read /etc/ldap/ldap.conf due to missing entry in apparmor  
            profile"
bug 1064232 "[FFe] New screenshots for installer slideshow in Ubuntu 
            12.10"
bug 1051162 "FFe: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu-gnome"
bug 1058102 "The strings in "ubuntu-release-upgrader" are not translated
            in UI"
bug 964674 "update-manager fails to display an error message"
bug 1060353 "DistUpgradeApport.py causes an apport assertion error"
bug 915626 "usb-creator-gtk crashed with SIGSEGV"
bug 1051110 "ucf debconf prompt lands in hidden terminal instead of 
            using gnome frontend"
bug 523896 "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later."
bug 1060249 "frontend crashed with signal 5 in free_pending_nulls()"
bug 1064391 "panda boot device selection label is "Help for GRUB device 
            selection goes here""
bug 1040393 "omap netboot partition too small for flash-kernel backup 
            procedure"
bug 1056744 "Ubiquity crashes after creating an encrypted partition 
            manually"
bug 1016643 "add-apt-repository downloads gpg key in an insecure 
            fashion"
bug 997200 "update-manager can't handle hotel web access pages"
bug 346386 "[MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with 
           "Encountered a section with no Package: header""
bug 24061 "GPG error with apt-get/aptitude/update-manager behind proxy 
          (BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5)"

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

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